: a one-room apartment serving as both bedroom and sitting room : bedsit
Ebury Street with its bedsitters, flatlets, small businesses, and round the corner a post-office, could not afford airs. Patrick White
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebSamson and Gregor moved their mother, the sofa, and whatever else out of Lotte’s ample apartment could be made to fit, into the bedsitter in the Hudson Valley. Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
Word History
Etymology
bed-sitting room + -er (as in fresher freshman, rugger rugby)